Pfitzner Hans. Fünf Klavierstücke op47

Berlin: Adolph Fürstner, 1941. — 22 p.Hans Pfitzner (1869-1949) was a German Composer. He describes himself as an "anti-modernist". Pfitzner was born in Moscow where his father played cello in a theater orchestra. The family returned to his father's native town Frankfurt in 1872, when Pfitzner was two years old, he always considered Frankfurt his home town.
From 1886 to 1890 he studied composition with Iwan Knorr and piano with James Kwast at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt.
Pfitzner's magnum opus was the opera "Palestrina", which had its premiere in Munich on 12 June 1917 under the baton of Jewish conductor Bruno Walter.
Last effort
In high spirits
Hieroglyphs
Anxious restlesness
Melodie